Education: Report Card

¶ Waspish Philosopher Mortimer (Great Books) Adler took another buzzing
stab at the "babysitting" aspects of U.S. education. Currently, said
Adler in a speech before a secondary-school educators' meeting of the
National Catholic Educational Association in San Francisco, the schools
do not prepare pupils to go on learning in their leisure time. Adler's
recommendation: do away with all vocational training in lower schools
and give every student a liberal-arts education up through the
bachelor's-degree level.

¶ Already the recipient of $1,750,000 from
the Sealantic Fund (John D. Rockefeller Jr.) for its theology faculty,...